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by kofejnik 10y ago
There have been many attacks in Russia where attackers would get a duplicate sim card from the operator (either with a bribe or a forged passport) and then proceed to hack everything linked to it - gmail, banks, facebook, etc
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by kofejnik 10y ago
I'm getting the same exact result: 'Crooked Hill' gives 'Crooked Hillary Bernie' and 'Crooked Hill Post Office'; while on Bing 'Crook' gives the expected 'Crooked Hillary' ('Croo&#
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Trump Supporters on Reddit Think Google Is Rigging Autocomplete for Hillary(motherboard.vice.com)
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by kofejnik 10y ago
it's the other way around - there's nothing magical about Palo Alto specifically, it's only through people who live and work there the place becomes desirable so they don't owe the society anything, the society owes them
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by kofejnik 11y ago
I'm hoping for Uber and Lyft to take over the world and put the traditional taxi companies out of business completely, to the extent that I dislike going to places where Uber isn't present. Most recent example - Athens, Greece, wh
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by kofejnik 11y ago
I'm not making a secret out of it
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by kofejnik 11y ago
Unlike you, I have personally experienced communism and Soviet Union. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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by kofejnik 11y ago
I've heard Berlin has a reasonable cost of living and a vibrant startup scene, also you would be close to Eastern European developers, should you need more programming muscle May I ask, how did you get that EU funding? I have a couple
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by kofejnik 11y ago
plenty of Vladimirs go by Vlad. Source: used to live in Russia
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by kofejnik 11y ago
actually quite convenient: besides having piece of mind, it really simplifies builds and deploy, all for the cost of a few extra mb in your git
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by kofejnik 11y ago
PSA: you should be keeping your dependencies in git
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by kofejnik 11y ago
this is not a serious burden on git, plus they will rarely change
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by kofejnik 11y ago
this is why your dependencies should be checked into git
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by kofejnik 11y ago
Would be nice if it had 'job responsibilities' and 'tech skills' fields
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by kofejnik 11y ago
Frelancers/consultants, especially remote, making >200k - how? Please share your wisdom
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by kofejnik 11y ago
looks like a front to "jobs by Indeed", actually
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by kofejnik 11y ago
Bruce Lee played it very smart and attained a guru status in the West, but there's no evidence he was a world-class fighter, only unsubstantiated claims by his entourage. As for JKD, people are drawn in by its oriental esotericism, but
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by kofejnik 11y ago
i remember it being akebono.stanford.edu
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by kofejnik 11y ago
what kind of skills are you looking for? I believe I am (we are) good at a few things
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by kofejnik 11y ago
In online and SMS Russian, a single ), reduced from standard :), is used so often that omitting it carries a kind of serious/angry meaning much like talking in a stern voice irl
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by kofejnik 11y ago
"My team created and implemented features XXX, YYY, and ZZZ" looks much better in some manager's performance review than "My team did NOT implement XX, YY, and ZZ, because reasons" So the changes are very thought ou
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by kofejnik 11y ago
Exactly. I have been let go (with a good package, though) from a dream job over a single personal comment from a long-time friend, who happened to work for a rival company. "You're friends irl with NNN? Sorry we have to let you go
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by kofejnik 11y ago
I believe you are quite wrong. Tells are real and they work, although they do differ from person to person, and expert opponents might deliberately give deceitful tells. Source: used to play a lot of live poker.
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by kofejnik 11y ago
> Why are you putting such a focus on gender? Why does the assistant need to be a "cute girl"? Because this is how it works. You're welcome to try your luck with male teens or whomever else you deem less sexist. > Your
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by kofejnik 11y ago
Good pics are paramount. A cute girl on the landing page about doubles the conversion rate. So, put people in your pics. If it's a folding bed or a transformer table, make a short video of said girl doing the transformation, so that fe
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by kofejnik 11y ago
heat/ac/overall status/engine start have been a feature on car remotes for 10 years now, although they do get hacked all the time, too as for Maps, that might be a point, but why not use the phone for nav, normally you don&#x
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by kofejnik 11y ago
One thing I can't understand: a $500 phone can unlock itself with my fingerprint, why can't a $50k car? I'd trust that a lot more than a minimum-wage phone operator somewhere.
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by kofejnik 11y ago
are you telling me that I can call some number and if I'm persuasive enough, they will unlock your car remotely and maybe even start the engine? Nice feature
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by kofejnik 11y ago
Why would a car be online at all, especially when parked? What is the benefit to consumer?
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by kofejnik 11y ago
I solved the tracking problem very easily with just three Chrome profiles: 1. Gmail work, gmail personal, chrome profile linked to gmail. Some work sites (clicking links from work emails). No other use. 2. Facebook + Vk only, not logged in,

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